JD Vance’s story suggests he has taken from the church its beauty, its authority and its pedigree but the pews and the people in them he has largely left behind.
Richard A. Greenwald
Richard A. Greenwald is a professor of history and dean of the Charles Meditz College of Arts and Sciences at Fairfield University. His essays have appeared in the Baffler, The Daily Beast, UnHerd, the New Atlantis and the Hedgehog Review.
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Something is wrong with the modern university. Catholic social teaching offers a solution.
A seemingly shared conviction these days is that universities exist to produce correct opinions rather than pursue truth. In this moment of crisis, I have found myself returning to Catholic social teaching for guidance.